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Electrogaz, Rwanda's public utility, is considering water rationing due to shortages caused by a prolonged drought in parts of the country, officials said.
Two member-states of the East African Community, Kenya and Uganda have confirmed cases of influenza A, H1N1 virus popularly known as swine flu.
Following allegations by rights watchdog Human Rights Watch and western media over a reproductive health bill that is currently before parliament, parliament has strongly denied the existence of articles of compulsory HIV testing and sterilisation.
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday met United States Under-Secretary of State for African Affairs Mr Johnnie Carson and Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo on the sidelines of the 13th Ordinary Session of the African Union General Assembly here.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Federal Republic of Ethiopia and the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere of Tanzania will be honoured for their contribution in liberating Rwanda, 15 years ago.
Rwanda has officially begun the implementation of the East African Community's Customs Union, two years after her entry into the regional bloc.
Rwanda entrepreneurs and others from the sub-Saharan Africa will benefit from a US aid agency and Western Union cash offer for Africans living in the US with business plans in Africa.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has sentenced former investigator for Defence, Leonidas Nshogoza to ten months in jail.
The current global financial crisis exposed governance crisis among financial institutions whose board rooms had been politicized to some extent that, board independence had been compromised.
Government has paid Rwf2 billion to the former depositors of the Micro Finances Institutions (MFIs) that were closed over gross mismanagement of funds, a top official has said.
The arrest of two journalists on Wednesday for alleged extortion is a shameful act that members of the media fraternity must condemn out rightly.
A week after the government received a sectoral budget support grant of 8.1 million Euros from the Federal Republic of Germany, another 5.56 million Euros financial agreement has been signed by the two countries.
A total of 69 corruption cases were reported during the first half of 2009 according to a report released by the Anti-Corruption Technical Committee.
A court in Kenya ruled on Tuesday that the assets of Felicien Kabuga should remain frozen until the ICTR completes the trials of suspects of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
The Charge d’Affaires en Pied at the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madam Nena Marie Helene Okitundu Ayaki has said that the people of Liberia and DR Congo have many things in common such as names of persons and places as well as their eating habits.
The Rwanda Over The Counter (OTC) market was quiet as no transactions were recorded.
side football team participation in the first stage of the fifth edition of the "Great Prize of Brazil in Futsal" was considered as reasonable by a top official of this sport, Luís Mourão.
The Minister of Planning, Ana Dias Lourenço, announced Thursday, in Luanda, the Angolan Government is to provide a positive growth of the country's economy, despite the global economic and financial crisis.
Angolan singer and songwriter Eduardo Paim is to sing on Friday at Luanda's Majocal show house, as part of the "Noite de Cacimbo" (winter night) programme promoted by this space, Angop has learnt.
The bill on sectorial policy of management of urban space within the national territory, proposed by the ruling MPLA party on Thursday was submitted to permanent work commissions of the National Assembly, for enrichment of its contend, Angop has learnt.
The purpose of last Saturday's launching was to make the public recognise the existence of the group and that the group can be useful in cultural manifestations.
Any use of the multi-media with the aim of provoking a positive response demands the truth and objectivity in the gathering and processing of material for dissemination. Without this, the main objectives of what is circulated to inform and sensitize for positive action shall have been relegated to manipulative acts of destruction.
Those shopping from superstores risk having their items missing at concierge services.
Bike riders in Yaounde are busy going about their business despite rumour about strike.
What do you think about Tianshi, GNLD, NG4L and other food supplements such as "forever living products" that are flooding the drug market today?
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